From Jenna Orkin

Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048

Russia And China Roll Out 100% Gold-Backed Currency

Whether or not this is fake news, as Google asserted yesterday, we know that both countries have been veering in that direction for years.  It's also interesting in light of another gesture that took place here:  US Congressman Pushes Bill To Reinstate Gold Standard

'You are the product’: Apple's cofounder Steve Wozniak is quitting Facebook

A Whistle-Blower Alleges Corruption in Rick Perry’s Department of Energy

Oil Spill Now Larger Than Paris Ravages Indonesian Island, 5 dead

Pharmaceutical giants are sidestepping US marijuana restrictions to research cannabis-based drugs

Japan's military activated its first marine unit since World War II — here's how they're training to recapture an island from enemy invaders

Couple with:  How China is quietly increasing its ability to wage war at sea

The Richest 1% Will Own Two-Thirds Of Global Wealth By 2030, Report Finds

UK: Funding Textbooks That Teach Children To Blow Themselves Up

US Congressman Pushes Bill To Reinstate Gold Standard

CIA & MI6 To Relocate Skripals To America, Give Them New Identities: Report

In Latest Humiliation For Brussels, Viktor Orban Wins Hungary Elections In Landslide Victory

                       From Jenna Orkin

                      Trump is breaking the environment beyond repair -           Note the source:  The Boston Globe

Nestlé Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For

               Again, here the interesting aspect is that it's being reported in Bloomberg. 

Department Of Homeland Security Compiling Database Of Journalists And 'Media Influencers’

Obama State Department Spent $9 Million With Soros To Meddle In Albanian Politics

UT Professor Threatened By Armed Antifa Group Found Dead

AI Researchers Boycott South Korean University Over Plan To Build "Killer Robots"

Civil Defense False Alarm Creates Panic Over 'Russian Invasion' In Norway Town

US Deploys Three Carrier Battle Groups To Face-Off Against Chinese Aircraft Carrier In South China Sea

Facebook Gave Money To 85% Of House Committee "Questioning" Zuckerberg Next Week

A miles-long crack has opened in Africa — and it could literally split the continent in two

From Jenna Orkin

New York Just Passed A Bill Banning Cops From Having Sex With People In Custody

Facebook secretly deleted Mark Zuckerberg's private messages over fears the company could be hacked

All Russiagate Roads Lead To London: Evidence Emerges Of Mifsud’s Links To UK Intelligence

In Letter To CEO, 1000s Of Google Employees Revolt Against Military Drone Project

Facebook Sent "Top Secret" Doctor To Hospitals For Patient Data Collection Scheme

Stormy Daniels Accusations Boost Trump Approval Rating Among Men, Poll Shows

This chain wants to be the McDonald's of vegan fast food — here's what it's like to eat there

Italian postman found with 400kg of undelivered mail said he stopped deliveries because he 'wasn't paid enough’

The giant garbage vortex in the Pacific Ocean is over twice the size of Texas — here's what it looks like
Antarctica's first greenhouse can harvest vegetables even when it's -100 degrees Fahrenheit outside — take a look

Soros To Start Trading Cryptocurrencies Amid Plunging Prices

Illinois Town Bypasses Constitution, US Citizens Given 60 Days To Turn In Guns Or Become Criminals

Sandberg: Facebook Users Would Have To Pay To Opt Out Of Sharing Data

Train Hauling 10 Million Pounds Of New York Excrement Stranded In Alabama

'Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie

BP claims an oil spill off Australia's coast would be a 'welcome boost' to local economies

Chichester child abuse: How did one small Church of England diocese produce so many paedophile reverends?

The Great Lakes are filling up with giant green blobs

From Jenna Orkin

Atlanta Police have confirmed a body found in the Chattahoochee River 

Saudi Prince's Nuclear Bomb Comment May Scuttle Reactor Deal

Oregon gov. refuses Trump's order to send National Guard to US-Mexico border | American Military News

China and Russia Forge Military Partnership

Facebook Admits "Most" of Its 2.2 Billion Users Exposed to "Malicious" Actors

Estonia Expands Massive Data Grab of 100,000 Citizens

CDC Finds "Nightmare Bacteria" Across US

Total Deploys First Robots to North Sea

Black Panther Will Be First Movie Publicly Shown in Saudi Arabia After 35-Year Ban

Bahrain Discovers 80 Billion Barrels in Reserves

From Jenna Orkin

China's military tells Russia "we've come to support you" against the U.S.

Birds Can See Earth's Magnetic Fields, And We Finally Know How That's Possible

‘I can’t breathe’: Asheville police video shows white officer beating, choking black jaywalking suspect

ANALYSIS | A NEW STUDY SUGGESTS FAKE NEWS MIGHT HAVE WON DONALD TRUMP THE 2016 ELECTION

Trump quietly met with a major tech CEO whose company is locked in competition with Amazon for a Pentagon contract worth billions

Father of the suspected YouTube shooter reportedly told police his daughter was 'angry' with the company, warned that she might travel to its office

Police reportedly found and questioned Nasim Aghdam on the morning of the YouTube shooting, then let her go

China is opening the world’s longest sea bridge — and it contains enough steel to build 60 Eiffel Towers

Why China's Soybean Tariff Changed Everything

California College Tuition Going Up... But Not For Illegal Immigrant Students

Lockheed To Build NASA A Supersonic Jet Without The Sonic Boom

From Jenna Orkin

Porton Down experts unable to verify precise source of novichok

Ten thousand people declared fit to work under Tory benefit cuts have died

2018 Hurricane Prediction – Strongest Cycle in 70 Years - 721news.com

Global Weather Oscillations (GWO) was cited by news media as the only major hurricane prediction organization that correctly predicted the hyperactive…

Teacher Strikes Are Spreading Across America With No End in Sight

With Vice President Pence breaking tie, Senate passes anti-Planned Parenthood bill

How for-profit prisons have become the biggest lobby no one is talking about

Sen. Marco Rubio is one of the biggest beneficiaries.

America's Top High School Science Students Are the Children of Immigrants

Canada just bought half of Puerto Rico’s main airport

Canada’s army is getting ready to invade Puerto Rico’s airport. The pension fund for the Canadian armed forces has won an auction to buy 50 percent of the company that operates Puerto Rico’s main a…

APNewsBreak: US suspects cellphone spying devices in DC

Supreme Court shields a police officer from being sued for shooting a woman in her front yard

From Jenna Orkin

Facebook has suspended the account of the whistleblower who exposed Cambridge Analytica

The White House releases a photo of its interns and the Internet asks: Where are the people of color?

FULL ROTATION OF MOON 

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Is that our moon?

Electric bacteria 

Hashem Al-Ghaili's

ICE Won’t Deport the Last Nazi War Criminal in America

Saudi Crown Prince Admits Saudis "Financed Terrorist Groups", Blesses Israeli Statehood

England Slides Closer To Communism: Malnourished Children Fill Pockets With Food

Employees Working With Corporations To Stop Corruption And Overreach Of Unions

One would hope this was rooted in the principle of keeping your enemies closer than your friends but it probably isn’t.

National Apartment Rents Stabilize As Small Cities Boom

China's State Owned Media Proclaims Petroyuan Will "Shake People's Confidence In The US Dollar"

Wyoming Is Challenging The Fed, Can It Become America's "Crypto Valley"?

Peak Shale? Payback Time: Oilfield Services Raise Prices

44 Democrats Exempted Awans From Background Checks Before Granting Access To Classified Intel

From Jenna Orkin

Two degrees no longer seen as global warming guardrail

Opinion | At Pruitt’s E.P.A.: No Studies, No Data, No Rules

China Military Used to Plant Trees video.

WaPo:  MLK’s Family Believes James Earl Ray Was Framed 

In Unprecedented Move, China Plans To Pay For Oil Imports With Yuan Instead Of Dollars

Lockheed Martin Patents Nuclear Fusion-Powered Fighter Jet

Drone Footage Reveals Stunning Size Of Palestinian "Great Return March" Protests Just Before "Bloodbath" Ensued

Bahrain makes largest oil discovery in its history

France To Send Military Forces To Syria As Trump Prepares To Withdraw; Turkey Furious

Wild, Wild Country - Expository piece in the Atlantic.  The documentary is fascinating, if largely for the questions it never answers.  (Who paid for all this and why aren’t they interviewed, or at least, described?) 

Amazon is asking cities for their high schoolers' SAT scores — and it's a major hint about its HQ2 priorities

Welsh Dragon successfully hatched at Bangor University

From Jenna Orkin

Russian News Service RT to Go Off the Air in the Washington Area

Mozilla creates Firefox extension to prevent Facebook from tracking you

UK COURT HEARS OF PLOT TO RAPE, DISSOLVE IN ACID CHILDREN FOR PLEASURE OF “TOP OFFICIALS” HTTP://COURTNEWSUK.CO.UK/PAEDOPHILE-PLOTTED-ABUSE-CHILDREN-TOP-POLITICAL-PEOPLE/

Kentucky county where water smells like diesel

Iranians use visa-free travel to Serbia to flee to EU

Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Implicated in Murder

Amazon Fires Washington's Biggest Lobbying Firm, Hires Two Podesta Group Alumni

Sheriff's SUV hits protester at Sacramento rally for Stephon Clark

Evidence is mounting that Amazon's HQ2 will land in 'the bull's-eye of America's internet’

Russian ships are skulking around undersea cables that power the internet, causing the US to worry the Kremlin is finding a new way to spy